I’m working with Pre-K children this year, as a Language Enrichment teacher, focusing on reinforcing things they are learning in the classroom. The children range in age from 4-6. A problem I’m having at the moment, is they can tell me the sound a letter makes, but when we were sorting some words as to what sound it started with, many of them can not hear the sound when they hear the word. For instance B makes a Ba sound, and bear begins with b, but if they hear the word without seeing it in print, many can’t hear the b sound, and just guess which letter it begins with. Not sure how to address this other than just keep practicing. This isn’t the only activity we do so I’m sure we will hit on another way to get around it. Just found it interesting.